Full soft drinks or diet soft drinks?

Sparkling water does it for me when in need of a fizzy drink. Preferably Galway water.is the fact that it's carbonated really bad for a person or is it way better than any of the other fizzys?

Diet Coke tastes like p1ss

Seanachai wrote: »

Went through a phase of drinking diet coke when I was younger and was eliminating foods and drinks to trace chronic illness and stopping it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. The artifical sweetners on a regular basis are worse than drinking regular sugar drinks occasionally. I still like a full sugar coke in the cinema if I'm hungover .

http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html

That website is bullcrap

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

Fact 1: Soft drinks are popular
Fact 2. Traditionally, soft drinks are very high in sugar
Fact 3. The vast majority of people in the West do not need any sugar in their diet beyond what they consume at mealtimes
Fact 4. There is a significant problem with Diabetes and Obesity
Fact 5. There are a lot of people out there who have poor willpower and will consume too much junk food regardless of the consequences.
Fact 6. Diet soft drinks contain a tiny fraction of the sugar content of regular soft drinks and taste very similar (in some cases, almost identical)
Fact 7. While there has been a lot of internet hysteria about the negative health impacts of artificial sweeteners like Aspartame, there is no evidence to support these claims. the most dramatic of these claims appear to have been simply made up by the likes of Naturalnews.com and other websites that make their money from selling 'natural' products and objecting to all things scientific.
Fact 8. While there very little evidence of harm from consuming artificial sweetners, there is incontrovertible evidence that over consumption of sugar can significantly shorten your life and negatively affect your health/quality of life.

If someone is worried about their weight or recognises that they don't need extra calories above their regular meals but doesn't feel like they want to live their lives in constant self denial, then using diet soft drinks is a perfectly sensible option as far as I'm concerned

If an alien species beamed down to earth and said they had this amazing technology that allows people to eat their favourite foods all the time with no significant negative effects, we would marvel at their ingenuity, but we have already invented amazing technologies to simulate sugar without the negative effects and instead of celebrating, we have half the populating whinging about a very slight taste difference, and the other half making up bullsh1t about how the new technology is all a conspiracy to poison us all...

We're a mad bunch of creatures us humans are.

Vodka and Coke.

hoodwinked wrote: »

i know, but my grandmother is 74 size 8-10, no diabetes, eats more sugar/fat/salt than i do (my mother is the same and she's worse than me too i at least try healthy eating sometimes)


we are an anomaly of a family, no physical health issues, other than 1 genetic unrelated to diet condition!

lol.

Water all the way, but occasionally if i was to have one, anything would do cause they're all bad for ya in some way so it doesn't really matter:cool:

chosen1 wrote: »

I think anyone with a sense of taste would easily distinguish between regular and diet versions.

Will pick up on that horrible false sweet aspartine anytime.

Sorry, I know the topic says diet but coke zero is also an option and tastes completely different to diet.

Coke zero and regular coke do indeed taste very very similar.

paulbok wrote: »

Fully leaded drinks normally, although like Caliden above, I've started to come around to coke zero lately.

But is has to be regular coke for a hangover.

Jaysus don't forget the bag of meanies

Celly Smunt wrote: »

Coke Zero does not taste anything like real coke,anyone who says it does is talking bullshit BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!
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Your opinion.